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One Of Artemus Wards Letters.

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The following letter from Artemus
Ward to q little Elmira girl, and re.
Gently published for the first time, is in
the possession OF an Elmira IN. Y.,)
gentleman:
SALEM, MASS, June 1S, 1864.
MY DEAR AMELA-I cannot tell you
how much I miss you.
1t seems as though I had lost all
relatives, including my grandmother
and the cooking stove.
Why didn't put you in q bottle
and bring you down here with me?
But l am always forgetting someth hing.
The other day / went off and forgot
my Aunt Sarah, and she's good deal
bigger than you are. Mr.. Ramsey is
also very forgetful man. He fire.
quently goes off and forgets his wash
erwoman. Mr. Ramsey is q very fine
looking man. He reminds me of Mr..
Green, the Maiden murderer. When
Mr.. Ramsey goes to the penitentiary,
which will be very soon, we must send
him doughnuts, magazines and other
literary documents. Mr.. Ramsey can
read print very we'll.
like you very much. l should like
you just as we'll if you were twelve
years older. l am very singular
about some things.
You spoke to me about a boy who
is my rival. / should feel very sorry
to kill that boy, but he may drive me
to it. am in hopes that he will take
himself into premature tomb-that
he will choke himself with a large
slice of pudding, but if he does neither
shall feel forced to load him with
chains and read all my lectures to
him. That will finish him. His boots
may remain, but the rest will have
persisted long ere get through!
You must be a good little girl, and
always mind your mother. Never let
your excellent mother feel sorry that
she is acquainted with you. II it
hadn't been for her you might have
drowned in soup plate long ago.
And if you hadn't ever had any moth
er you might be a Turkey with the
Turkeys. In fact, my dear Amelia,
so conduct yourself that even on dark
and rainy days the bright sun may
shine wherever you are, and that the
stars (which are next to the sun in
brightness) may never fash so bright
ly but that you can always look
steadily and hopefully towards them.
Faithfully, your friend,
A. Ward.
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time dies! Lucy. this young fellows
father and l had such good times in
the old days. How long did you read
law. Bollingp"
"a little over two years. sir"
Like it?'
very much indeed. sir."
''Whom did you read withP"
"Spence & Sullivan"
'Good men. Sullivan put you
through the office business. l fancy;
that's his way. Now. I've been put
ting you through an exhaustive exam-
ination. which is my way and l think
you will do. Let old Bragg find an
other salesman. He's not dying for
you. and l can get him n substitute.
l have two students in my office. What
they are there for is their own business,
but they II never make great success at
the bar unless they change their ways
l want clerk to manage my office, and
to boss around while am off on Cir
cult. I'll give you living salary
not too much, and you can read law
meanwhile. You ought to be able to
pass in year. If you turn out as I
hope you will. why. when you get your
sheepskin. We'll see what can be done.
What do you say to it?"
Say to it. sir. What can l say but
yes. and thank you for the offer"
Every we'll. that's settled. Here we
are. and there's our carriage. G We
your checks to John there. and he'll
bring your luggage to the house. along
with ours. Show your gallantry, and
hand Lucy into the carriage. Jump in.
I'll drive"
The next day James Poulder, ESQ.,,
made his appearance at the Carriers in
state of elegance. only matched by
that OF Captain Cuttle's famous watch
never equalled, and rarely excelled.
He was ushered into the drawing-room
and received by Il young lady, whose
style. SUI TED even his fastidious taste,
and whose features had dim familiar
ity. When the judge came in, the
young mans recognition of the farmer
in the cars was complete. He stam-
mered out an apology. but the old man
relieved him.
1T could hardly have been expected
that YOU should have known u.s. said
the Judge. "Let all that pass. You
are quite welcome. AS we have two
hours before dinner. we'll 60 to the
office and look over the papers to-
gether Miss Carter will excuse you,
meanwhile"
In the office Poulder found Boiling,
who was busy at work on IL declara-
ton.
"Why, Frank, l thought you were
going into the grocery business.
I've changed my nine" replied
Frank, resuming his work.
James Poulder stayed his week out,
and then took the cars to Careysburg.
Frank Boiling did not make the same
trip until two years after. When he
went to visit his father. who had got
over his pecuniary troubles, and to see
his sisters. He had been admitted to
the bar meanwhile, and Judge Carter,
whose favorable impressions time had
confirmed, had taken him into part
nership. He had gone into another
partnership. just before he left. He
was in high spirits on that trip. He
was not alone. Miss Lucy Carter. that
had been. Mrs. Francis Boiling then.
was his travelling companion. Thomas
Dunn Elglish, in Independent.
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Invading the AristOcratic Quar-
ter.
The banner OF the almighty dol

The banner OF the almighty dollar
advances steadily up Fifth avenue.
says the New York Graphic. 1t will
not be many years befor the big Van
derbilt mansions. with their carved
portieres and their square box-like
and richly built ugliness, will find
about and around them the stores of
busy merchants, and the deep, white
cathedral will catch within it's high
rooted walls the hum of outside buy
erys and sellers just as do the churches
in older and more populous lands. A
walk up the avenue shows how fast
the great change goes on. The Aston
block of homes stands like q rock
against the onward current of trade,
yet on the corner beside it a wine shop
has been carved out of a brown-stone
mansion, and the signs, with big blaz-
ing letters, tell the price OF the liquors
and stare impudently into the second
story windows of the aristocratic
mansion of the descendants
of the old fur merchant. Above
the Astor houses, on the same side OF
the street, is the lonely, silent white
building that was once the residence
of A. T. Stewart. 1t would be a
blessing to break the massive house
into stores, and it would be a fitting
and perhaps logical ending to the
sad memories that cling. about it's
empty, shutterless windows. Like the
Astors, this house has stood in the
way of the busy, ambitious merchants
but they have passed it by, and by
the end of next month store built
up with plebeian brick and ordinary
mortar will be right up against its
north line, will shut out half the view
up the avenue, and will swing it's signs
in the pale face of the marble edifce.
1t IS the same story one learns all
along the wide avenue--the earnest,
nlmble dollar tradesman has taken
possession of it, and our aristocrats
OF to-day-the children of the peddlers
of generation aegean save them
selves from daily contact with bust
ness surroundings only by flight to
the outer edge of the island.
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Chicago ON the New Sensation

The bars had to wheel into line, Moxie
was the call every where. 1t was the same
in New York, Philadelphia. Washington
and other large cities. Imitators attempt.
ed to kill it, but the boys did not get the
effect from the bogus and cut their saloons.
This brought dealers to their senses and
now pure Moxie is the rule. Look out in
Chicago. Fraud never succeeds by trick
of that kind
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-29

The veteran kickers OF Harvard, Yale
Williams and Dartmouth join hands and
down the state university lads at Minnea.
polls in q lively game OF foot ball.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-29

There il q good deal OF uneasiness in pc.
litical circles regarding the rumored at
tempt OF the Mexicans Of Guatemala to Sc
cure the support Of the United States gov
eminent as against Mexico. It lie felt here
that such step would do much to disturb
the pleasant relations existing between
Mexico and the United States.
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Capt. r. w. Andrews OF Sumpter. s. c.,
aged ninety-seven, has walked 10000
miles during the last four years. His last
stroll was from Sumter to Boston.
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A Trial by Jury.

That great American jury, the people,
have rendered unanimous verdict in fav-
or OF DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pei
let's, the standard remedy for bowel and
stomach isorders, biliousnees, sick head
liver.
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The Gallatin glass works at Sharpsburg.
Pa, were totally destroyed by fire. The
factory employed Is hands. Loss, $751;
900; very little insurance.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-29

M. D. Ball, United States attorney for
Alaska, died on the steamer Aucon, while
en- route to Seattle. His body was ship.
ped to Washington City.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-29

E. S. Wheeler, the insolvent iron inn
porter OF New Haven, has been arrested
for obtaining money under false pretenses.
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Dropping out OF the hair, with itching OF
the scalp, prevented, and the scalp made
cool and healthy by the use OF Halls Vege-
table Sicilian Hair Remover.
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julius Johnson, twelve years old, was
killed by the accidental discharge OF his
shot gun while hunting in q road cart
with another young boy near Osseo, Wis.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-29

N. p. Clark and family, st. Cloud, will
leave for Europe next II onth to be absent
for several months.
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No opium in Pisos cure for consumption.
Cures where other remedies FAIL 25cts.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-29

FRAZER AXLE GREASE will last two weeks,
all others two to three days. Try it.
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Come to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother, when she feel
For the FIRST time, her first-born's breatl
And thou art terrible!

For the first time, her first born breath,
And thou art terrible!
The untimely death which annually car
ries off thousands Of human beings in the
prime OF youth, ia indeed terrible. The
first approach Of consumption is insidious,
and the sufferer himself is the most uncon-
scious OF its approach. One OF the most
alarming symptoms of this dread disease
is in fact, the ineradicable hope. which
turks in the heart OF the victim, preventing
him from taking timely steps to arrest the
malady. That it can DO arrested in it's
earlier stages is beyond question, as there
are hundreds ,oi well-authenticated cases
where DR.. Pierce Golden Medical Discov-
cry has effected complete cure.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-29

An exhaustive article-The stomach pump.
Teas Eiftin0s.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-29

Walking advertise ments for DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy are the thousands it has
curod
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| JEALOUS
| DOCToRs.

of money, but received no lasting b
persuaded me to try your medicine
because / was prejudiced against
they would do me no good. / final
he would get me some of your me
against the advice Of my physician.
ten dollars. took three bottles O
'Favorite Prescription and I have bt
years. / then gave the balance of the
was troubled in the same way, and
time. have not had to take an
four years"
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prospects and intentions.
Boiling was frank by nature, and
the questions of his interlocutor. who
WAS AS ingenious. were craftily put. The
sharp granger soon learned that Frank
Boil ng had been engaged for some
time in the study of the law; but that
his father having met with reverses.
and having two younger daughters to
educate. the young man determined to
make his burden less. and had set out
to support himself. abandoning his law
;.t,nl cs. and taking situation as sales
man ut country store in CIR ffton, a
thirty ng town about five miles from
the main line.
Il get but q beggarly pay Of
COURSE said Frank, gayly. II am
only raw hand; but I have promise
that. when / am better qualified, my
wages will be increased"
You are rather singular person, "
81 Il the farmer, blufHy. Most young
men would have talked of their
salary"
Il rather prefer the old stye Of En-
g,isI,." said Boiling. II am to be a
hrreling; and the compensation of q
hireling is called wages. But wages
or salary-the terms are Indifferent to
me.
MY place is within a mile Of Griff-
ton," said the old man. Il have a
notion that I knew your father once.
Wasn't he at Harvard. in his timer"
Yes, sir, and so was /. We are
alumni of the same school"
II wonder II he remembers his old
chum there-one George Carter
George ST. Leger Carter, as they have
it on the rolls"
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A Marvellous Cure.--.Mrs G.. F. SPRAGuE.
Of Crystal, Mich, writes: II was troubled with
womb for seven years, so had to keep my bed
for good part of the time. doctored with an
orr M different md SDpnf large
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as they imagine, one from dyspe
haustion or prostration, another
and Indifferent, or over-busy doct
. such, when, in reality, they are 6
, encourages his practice until lar
,rong treatment and consequent &C
Id have entirely removed the dis
d misery.
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daughter followed by Boiling, made
theirs to the single car. with little
superannuated engine attached, which
stood waiting. There were no other
passengers. and the three had the car
to themselves.
''Come over here. Mr.. Boiling" said
the old man, after the car had been
in motion while, Il want to talk
to you bit Turn down that seat.
That will do. You said you had a
letter for Judge Carter, and didn't
intend to deliver it.
Eyes, SIR"
did it never occur to you, young
man. that it was your duty to obey a
fathers orders?"
Il trust. sir, that am usually ODE
dent. It was not positive order.
/ shall write to him and explain"
II tell you that you should deliver
that letter to its proper owner. You
are only trustee in the case. l am
Judge Carter, and this is my daughter,
Lucy. Hand over the paper to the
court"
Il beg pardon. sir; but r.
"You want Identification. Here,
conductor! Tell this young gentleman
who am"
Judge Carter responded the
functionary, little curious to know
what 1t was all about.
"Thank you, Philips. That'll do.
Now, SIR"
Boiling, not little astonished, took
the letter from his pocket-book.
IF you'll permit me-" said the
Judge, as he opened the letter. and
glanced over the contents. HE gives
you . good character, and wants me
to look after you . little. Alb. how
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

HENRY GEORGE has tapering hand. but
Editor O'Brien has the longest head.-Atlanta
Constitution.
THE many refusals of the Bulgarian throne
prove conclusively that it has not yet been Of
fered to a Democrat Chronicle.
AT all events no howl of protest will ever be
raised against inviting a Democratic Preside Mt
to an encampment of ex-confederate veterans.
-Philadelphia Press
THE Knights of Labor are making history
very fast these days. and is all points way
to the radical reorganization of the order or its
quick disintegration. Springfield Republican.
THE cause Of peace and order in Kentucky
would doubtless be finely promoted by sur
rounding Rowan county with impossible
wall and giving each of its inhabitants a years
allowance of arms and Observation-Disclosures
phia Press.
If the Republican leaders were wise as they
should be ut so important a time, they could, by
a clear determined expression of opinion in
favor of such a reduction of the tf.-id would
insure full protection to labor an capital. while
preventing monopoly oppressIye profits re-
sulting from undue protection to special inter
es;s gather to their support almost the entire
industrial population of the country.-Philadel-
pnia telegraph
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CINcINNATI has a secret society for provide ne
poor girls with pretty dresses.
APRoPos of turtle soup and turtle steak, it was
Artemus Ward who SAID: LAS for me, give me
turtle or give me death. What is life without
turtlel Nothing! What is turtle without lifel
Nothinger still"
PROFESSOR ToDD, of Amherst College, last
Wednesday departed for Japan to observe the
coming solar eclipse He took with him large
telescope and other apparatus. which ne will set
up about a hundred miles from Toxic.
NINE. MoDJEsKA is making handsome fort
une by the appreciation in value of her town
lots in Los Angeles She was shrewder, or
luckier investor than her husband. for he put
his money chiefly in vineyards, which not
paying we'll.
New YORK Tribune: The visit of Mrs. Thorn as
A. Hendricks to New York. 50 she said yester-
day, is for the purpose of doing little shop
ping She is stopping at the Sturtevant House.
and is accompanied By female relative. Mrs
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WE are glad to observe that court has
been found at last courageous enough to pune
ture the me-honored fallacy that it is better
that ninety-nine guilty persons should escape
than one innocent man should be convicted
This moss-covered fiction has been the cause
first and last of great deal of mischief. The
Supreme Court of Illinois, in a recent decision
adams VS.. The People, 100 ILL.,, 451) held that
an instruction properly refused which
asserted the policy of the law to be, that it is
better that ninety and nine any number of
guilty persons should escape than that one
innocent man should be convicted because.
first, there is no policy of the law upon the
subject for the consideration of the jury,
and secondly, it is not within the purpose of
the law that any guilty person should escape,
or any innocent one be convicted The ques-
ton for the determination of the jury is the
guilt or innocence of the accused, and it is
not for them to inquire what is polite to do.
That is good horse sense. n
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sherif's friends rallied to his defense. The
result was factional feud. which, during the
last two years, has resulted in the killing of
seventeen persons, and the manning and
crippling for life of not less than twenty more.
The two Logan boys were shot down in cold
blood to prevent their testifying in favor of
their father, an old physician who is now in
Jail on a trumpedup charge. The condition
of things in Rowan county under Craig
Tolliver's reign of terror is such as TO make
life among the Apache Indians seem quite
desirable by contrast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-13

THE celebrated Tichborne case is brought
to public notice in England once more by the
rightful heirs coming of age. Twenty years
ago the claimant who called himself Sir
Roger Tichborne, rehearsing his part and
getting points few miles from Tichborne
Hall, while the infant baronet, then only
year old, was the central figure in the great
legal movements on the other side. The
young baronet, Sir Alfred Henry Tichborne,
has recently reached his majority, and to-day
begins week of fetes in his honor at Itch
borne Hall. The Tichborne estate consists of
eight thousand acres in one county, with
smaller ones in two or three others, and i'm
mensely valuable property in London. 1t
was big prize to fight for, and the claiman
made wonderful fight for it. 1t was only
after long and costly litigation, in which all
England took sides for or against him, that he
was finally convicted of perjury and sent
enced to ten years in an English prison. He
is now in this country. At Philadelphia, one
day last week. he told q reporter
he was going back to England soon to reopen
the case aud press his claim. He says he has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-13

THAT japan is not insensible to the prog
,ess of the age and of science is shown by the
fact that there are seventeen meteorological
Dbservatories in the empire. OF these, ff-
Teen are owned by the government and two
by private persons Through special ar
rangement made with foreign countries these
pbseryatories are allowed to have three free
telegraphic communications each day with
svery other observatory in the world China
has not single observatory. There is one at
Shanghai owned by Frenchmen, and two
more at Hong Kong and Annoy, both owned
by Englishmen. By maintaining communica-
ton with these three observatories the
Japanese Weather Bureau is able to predict
weather with toierable accuracy. But as all
of them lie on the southern coast of China,
there is no way of finding out what kind of
weather they have in the interior of China,
except after long delay. In this as in other
respects Japan appears far more progressive
than China.
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the assurance of ample pecuniary backing,
and that thousands of his friends are ready to
rally around him. Hs will not find it easy to
revive his claim, though there are still plenty
of people in England who believe in it. His
lawyers and three of the judges who tried him
are dead. Coleridge and Hawkins, who, as
Queens counsel, resisted his claim in the
civil suit and prosecuted him criminally, are
now judges of the Queens Bench. The title
of the present baronet has been confirmed by
a special act of Parliament, and the inconse
of the estate during his long minority has
made him very rich. Yet tSir Roger" is 60
ing back to England to renew lis claim, and
says, "Pll show the English government that
once refused to hear me that 1 certainly don't
lack friends -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-13

By general order from the War Depart
ment artillery recruits will hereafter be sub
iected to pass special examination to estab-
lish the potency of the eustachian tubes and
tho integrity of the tympanic mem branes, in
default of which the men are held to be unfit
for that arm of the service Green Smith
would never do for the artillery service. We
have been shouting at him for months past to
refund the So he owes the State, and he
hasn't heard us. Is the trouble in his
sustachian tubes or his tympanic membranes2